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ELECTRIC LAMP CARRIER. l ATI FILED MAY 29, 191s.

APPL C 1,313,337. Patented Aug. 19 1919.

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ERICH SCHINSCHOLL, 0F SHLALND, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO GENERALELECTRIC COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF`NEW YORK.

ELECTRIC-LAMP CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

yPatented Aug. 19, 1919.

Application mea may 29, 191s. serial No. 100,511.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ERLCH SoHrNseHoLL, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Ashland, in the county ofGrafton and State of NewHampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1nElectric-Lamp Carriers, of which the following is a. specification.

This invention relates to eleetrlc lamp carriers and -has for its objectto provldea device of the class specified simlple 1n construction andelicient for securely protecting its contents against breakage intransit. Other and more detailed featuresof usefulness .and econo-mywill appear later herein.

To these .ends my improvements comprise in their preferred embodiment astrip of cardboard or other suitable material having several transversecreases thereacross and a hole therethrough near each end thereof.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 illustrates a plurality of. myimproved car- {riers fwith ordinary incandescent electric lamps therein,assembled within -a shipping case or container. Fig. 2 is across-sectional elevation on line 2--2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an isometricview of my improved carrier folded into the form in which it is used butwith the lamp omitted. Fig. 4 is a plan view v of what is shown in Fig.3 but with the carrier laid out iat and in suitable condition forstacking with others of its kind for shipping, in the least .possi-blespace, to the point of use. F ig. 5 is a fragmentary plan view similarto a yportion of what is shown in 'i Fig. 4 but illustrating -amodification thereof.

In lamps of the character illustrated that portion ofv greatest weaknessand least resistance to jars andublows is the point of the bulb as 18,where the l-amp is sealed as a final step in its construction.Heretofore in lamp carriers provision has been made to aiord pointprotection by supports or p aeking around or directly against thepoints.

In my improved carrier I protect the point as 18 of lamp 12 byisolation,thereby oibviating the common danger of damage from supports in contactwith said points.

Referring now more' particularly to the figures of the drawing, 2represents a strip of sheet material, which may be of ordinarypasteboard of suitable thickness and relatively narrow as compared withits length. Such strip 2 should have a width slightly greater than themaximum.v diameter of the lamp lamp to .be carried thereby. Oppositelydisposed, near and equidistant from the middle lengthwise saidv strip, Iform two creases 4, 5 thereacross, and near the opposite ends two othersimilar creases 3, 6 on which to fold the strips uniformly. My improvedstrip is'thereby divided lengthwise into five zones to wit; a relativelyn-arrow central head-piece 15, two side walls 16, 17 of greater length,and two end fia-ps 9, 10 each of a length preferably somewhat greaterthan that of head piece l5 but materially shorter th-an side Walls 16,17. Side walls 16, 17 are of suflicient length to maintain head piece 15clear of point 18 of the lamp when my improved carrier is assembled onthe lamp. In flaps 9, l0 between creases 3, 6 and the ends of the stripsrespectively I form holes 7, 8, preferably circular in contour, of asize adapted to fit snugly over and grip the threaded metal shank:v 11of the In the modification of Fig. 5 I have shown opening as 8 of Fig.A4 in the form of a slot 24. inreaching from the end of the strip 2. Thedistance between side walls 25, 26. of said slot isa-preferably slightlyless than the diameter of its circular portion whereby a narrow entranceto said slot is provided.

My improved carrier is applied to the lamp by buttoning one of the endflaps as 10 by its hole 8 over shank 11 of the lamp 12, then foldingsaid strip 2 endwise around the body of the lamp and buttoning the otherend iap 9 of the strip, by its hole 7 onto said lamp shank 11. In thisprocess of folding the strip 2 about the lamp as described andillustrated said strip naturally bends in the creases provided therefor,Viirst increase 6, then in sequence in creases 5, 4 and 3. Thedistances' of creases 3, 6 from the centers of holes 7, 8 respectively,is suiicient to provide, when assembled on the lamp, open spaces 13, 14between the side walls 16, 17 ofthe container and the slop- ,away frompoint 18 of the lamp when said side walls are folded .about the lamp andin contact with the sides of the hemispherical head thereof, wherebypoint 18 is isolated v and free of all contact or danger* of contactwith the carrier, except under a destructive crushing of the carrier orcontaining carton.

Furthermore said lamp 12 is maintained centrally, with reference to theopposite edges'19, 20, Fig. 2, of the carrier by means of the double-support afforded shank 11 by the two flaps 9, 10. By this arrangementbreakage ofthe lamp bulb by possible con- -tact with the bottom or top(not shown) of the container is prevented.

In assembling a plurality of my improved carriers having lamps therein,within a container as 21, I preferably arrange said carriers side byside, alternately in opposite positions, the first. with head 15 againstside wall 22 of container 21 and the next with lamp base 11 against saidside wall 22 and so forth. By this arrangement the hemispherical portionof the lamp bulb is in each instance adjacent one of the spring sidewalls of its next adjoining carrier, whereby even though a blow bestruck the container, as for instance at 23, directly adjoining the lampbulb, said bulb would, because of its yieldable support 'by theadjoining carrier, be able to sustain the blow without damage.

I claim: l

1. The combination of a lamp and a protective carrier thereforcomprising a strip of sheet material, means near each end of said stripfor gripping the lamp shank when said strip 'is wrapped en'dwise aroundthe lamp, said strip being provided with a fiat portionmidway its lengthand maintained, whenth'estrip is in place on the lamp,- in a position"relatively remote from the point of the lamp.

The wmbinationof a lamp and a protective carrier therefor comprising astrip of sheet material wider than theY major diameter. of said lamp,means near each end.

and with the end of the bulb and point thereon free of contact with saidcarrier.

4. The combination of a lamp and a protective carrier thereforcomprising a strip of sheetmaterial having means for supporting the lampby its shank in two transverse planes and with the lamp bulb free ofsaid carrier except atyopposite portions, of its greatest diameter, saidlamp containing carrier being adapted when arranged side by side withothers of its kind and with the lamp shanks pointing alternately inopposite directions, to preserve at all points an'open space betweenadjacent lamp bulbs.

Signed at New York,-- in the county'o New York and State of New York,this 27th day of May, 1916, before two subscribing witnesses. j ERICHSCHINSCHOLL. Witnesses: i

EnwAiiD B. SAGENDORF,

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